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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Congo - Kinshasa	Austria
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	51,181	8,039
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	52,782	8,059
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	54,453	8,090
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	56,170	8,130
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	57,860	8,166
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	59,599	8,217
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	61,474	8,274
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	63,479	8,317
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	65,590	8,344
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	67,800	8,370
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	70,114	8,390
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	72,550	8,410
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	75,138	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	77,792	8,476
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	80,534	8,527
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	83,368	8,594
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	86,229	8,680
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	89,193	8,791
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	92,209	8,847
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	95,232	8,890
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	98,320	8,930
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	101,499	8,969
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	104,767	9,004
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	108,171	9,107

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.